Victorian Siberian Amethyst Pansy Pendant signet ring Queen Victorian wrote to General

Queen Victorian wrote to General Sir Redvers Buller: "'I have heard with the deepest concern of the heavy losses sustained by my brave Irish soldiers

it's been worn alongside another ring so there's a groove along one edge where the rings have rubbed

Birmingham 1897

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59ct Cushion Cut Burma Ruby - no heat treatment

Victorian Siberian Amethyst Pansy Pendant signet ring Queen Victorian wrote to GeneralDATE: Victorian, c. 1900 The name "pansy" derives from the French pense (meaning thought), and was incorporated into Late Middle English as a name for violas (the flower) in the mid 1400s. These flowers were thus regarded as a symbol of remembrance, representing "love in idleness" to evoke the image of a lover who can focus on nothing but the thought of her his beloved. Pansy is used more or less interchangeably with viola and violet when describing